It had been a long time since Dantess Queen of Nosgoth had needed to fly, it had been even longer still, since she thought of her wings, and how she came to lose them.. As she rests upon her window ledge enjoying the cool breeze, before heading back down to the main hall to deal with more people asking for safe haven. This war Dementis had started was having a knock on effect on her kingdom.. she was fed up of immigrates who was begging pleading for her to offer the kingdoms protection. She had even had the leaders of the rebels into her count asking if she would honour them with her aid.. she had of course refused.. They hadn’t helped her when she re-took her throne.
But now as Tess stood idle she wished she could just fly away.. but long ago her wings had been stripped, burned from her body.. she allowed herself to loosen the grip on her memory just a little to remember that day.
She had been 1300 and was attending her birthday celebrations, her father had splashed out on a new Gown and she was running back to her room to change.. She called for her servants to help her change and was quickly taken off her gown as they walked in.. her back was turned so she couldn’t see.. thinking it was her maids she ordered them to help her change..
That’s when she was snatched from behind.. the men held a cloth over her mouth she could taste the sleeping drug.. she tried to struggle but it was quick acting, she eyes drooped and she found herself looking up into the snake like eyes of her captors.
When the young princess woke up she found her arms clasped in iron chains, which were also clasped to the concrete floor.. her legs also chained in a similar fashion, but this wasn’t the worst of things. She was still half dressed they had covered her modestly with a tatty white tunic, which left her back bare. she puzzled over this fact for a while.. until a man stepped out of the shadows he had long dark hair to his waist, he was tall and incredibly handsome in a feminine sort of way, but it was his eyes which struck her them yellow glowing snake eyes.. he folded some of his black bangs over his face and hissed quietly.
”Welcome back princess.. I hope your stay will be uncomfortable..”
”Master?”
A younger man entered the room his own black hair tied in a neat ponytail. He turned his eyes upon her and then back to his master.
”master the king has paid the ransom.. but there are guards watching it.. they hope to take us by surprise”
”I figured as much.. Mishi bring him in and tell him to make this painful. I want to listen to the music of her screams..”
Mishi shivered and looked upon the face of his elder brother.. he disliked this man, this thing.. but he wasn’t stupid enough to strike out against his brother. He now felt sorry for the child they had taken but the king had promised them a reward.. and that reward was killing their father and now they sought to kill them all.. but why had they taken the child wasn’t the father who they hated and had the disagreement with.?
Mishi left the same way they had came the next room over had the same bare appearance but a little Mole-man was sitting nervously under the table. This poor trembling creature squeaked as Mishi grabbed it by its tail.
”come on Brother Kaiss wants you to perform the. the operation on the child..”
”Squeak! But it will be terrible painful for years on a child as she grows it will burn. Squeak!”
”I think.. I know he knows this and that’s why..”
Carrying the mole by his tail into the next room the poor thing scrambled at his briefcase in a dire attempt to hold onto his gear.
He was quickly dumped onto the cold hard flooring and he scrambled for his stuff and looked up at his owner.
”Y-you called me m-master. Squeak”
“Yesh I did give this brat the treatment.. and make sure she’s awake for it.. or you will be injected with it yourself!”
As kaiss’s slender form walked back into the shadows she could hear a sound of other serpent brothers hissing their approval.. and the darkness at the back of the room became littered with pairs of yellow eyes..
“Burnsss the child..”
The mole-man quickly and quietly open his briefcase inside was two vials of unknown liquid and one very long and sharp needle gun. Slotting the vials into the two ready-made containers. He turned to the Tess his small pebble like eyes filled with sorrow..
Grasping the little princess around her neck he injected the first vial, into her neck the clear liquid vanished quickly, but pain grew inside of her it seems to be swirling around in the stomach she almost retched. Instead her beautiful black feathered wings
Shot out of her back.. this of course was the action they had been waiting for, Kaiss pounced upon her wings and clipped them into the metal clasps above her she struggled but she struggled in vain. The mole quickly scurried around her and injects the black liquid into one of her wings and then the other. Tess then felt a burning flame searing through her wings she arched against the wall and metal her feathers dropping off their holdings. And scattering on the ground below her. She felt the touch of the cold upon the now seared, charred remains of her once great wings. And her head drops upon her chest limply the last sight she saw was the brother making their way out of the door.
Much later on.. a torch shone inside the black room and upon the twisted form of Tess the guard Gasped and said a quick prayer in the name of all things holy. All that was left of Dantess's beautful black wings was the charred black stumps.
Now we go back to Tess Standing at her window..looking out at the rain which had started to fall.. a old guard limped through the door and bowed slowly.
your highness.. the lord and lady Herald of Disa are for sancatury.. as i show them to the court room..?
Tess sighed and turn to face her duty as Queen of Nosgoth but sometime at night she wishes she could hide back in Barton with her friends.
 Dantess · Tue Aug 29, 2006 @ 06:47pm · 0 Comments |
